Contact Improvisation
Online Auction Contributions Needed!
Showcase your skills, experiences, or unique offerings while supporting Earthdance. This is a great way to promote your business, help raise funds, and spread the word about Earthdance to our global creative community.
We're accepting online auction gifts until November 17th. The auction will launch online and be open for bidding from November 28th through December 13th—culminating at our Gala!
Earthdance
is an arts, dance, & movement organization and retreat center in Western Massachusetts, on unceded, ancestral Nipmuck, Pocumtuc and Wabanaki Confederacy Land. Earthdance welcomes guests from around the world to engage in events that center movement and embodied practice, Contact Improvisation, and collaborative art making.
The staff and board of directors are committed to an organizational culture that values interdisciplinary collaboration, improvisational community building, and ongoing devotion to equity, access and direct response to the realities of a greater socio-cultural landscape.
Earthdance is dedicated to building awareness of sustainable living and community building; in addition to arts-focused programming, the facility is available for partnerships with other organizations, institutions, festivals, and rentals that align with Earthdance’s values and culture.
Classes & Workshops
Contact Improvisation
Artist Residencies & Retreats
Community
Earthdance Events
For more events see the full calendar >
Gratitude COCO Jam! with teachers Olive Frank and Tal Shibi – Register Now!
November 27th - 30th, 2025
Tal and Olive will be offering a CI morning lab throughout the weekend that is designed for movers who crave a richer, more integrated connection to their dancing.
The Gala! Helping Earthdance Thrive.
Saturday, December 13th, 2025
The Gala and Online Auction The Gala is Saturday, December 13th, 2025, 5:00 – midnight The Online Auction Showcase your skills, experiences, or unique offerings while supporting Earthdance. This is a great way to promote your business, help raise funds, and spread the word about Earthdance to our global creative...
New Year’s Jam! with teachers Nelson Té and Robin Shaw & CICo hosts Michael Sheely and Chandra Cantor – Register Now!
December 27th, 2025 - January 1st, 2026
Our hosts and fellow Love Weavers, Nelson Té and Robin Shaw, will infuse our Winter Jam with the theme “What would Love do?” What are different aspects of Love, and how might these qualities inspire and inform the ways we dance with the whole Jam experience?
Spiral & Root: Earthdance Professional CI Training
January 8 to January 29, 2026
For those who are longing for a deep and durational dive into CI research, pedagogy, and professional training, you’re invited to gather with us for three weeks from January 8th through 29th, 2026. More information
Second Sunday Jam
Potluck at 5pm, Class at 6:15pm, Jam at 7:30pm
Bring your movement gifts to share along with a yummy dish to nom on after class. Let's commune and practice during our sweet jam. And, relax together in the sauna while we rest our bones. Registration not required.
Interwoven: The Axis Syllabus and Dynamic Partnering with Daniel Bear Davis – Sunday Nov 9th Class CANCELLED due to Sickness.
Second Sunday - Nov 9th, 2025 - Workshop 3-6pm, Potluck 6:15pm, Jam 7:30pm
This series of workshops, threaded through the year, will ground our explorations in The Axis Syllabus (AS) and Dynamic Partnering Practices. The AS explores details of our own anatomy, refined over thousands of years of evolution, to gain clues about how to move in collaboration with our own fascinating design.
Earthdance Garden 2nd Sunday Community Work Day – Closed for Winter – Starting back up on April 12th, 2026
Starting back up April 12th, 2026 - Join any time between 10am - 5pm
Come get your hands in the soil...then jam! Hosted by Neal and Shosei, come connect with the Earthdance community. Learn about sustainable gardening, share in the abundance, help us continue building and maintaining the Earthdance garden vision.
Gravity’s Contour: Drawing The Dancing Body with Aaron Birk – Register Now!
Saturday, November 15th, 2025: 10-4pm, potluck lunch
Join Aaron Birk for an afternoon of illustration and dance! Let's dilate our awareness to describe a curving spine, a floating pelvis, an arching rib, or a supporting limb, all with soft lines of charcoal and sweeping strokes of ink. Let's dissolve our analytical mind and harness the power of gesture -- to draw as an embodied witness.
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More Ways to be Here
Host Your Event
With a unique combination of mixed-used indoor & outdoor facilities, Earthdance provides an ideal setting for workshops, conferences, weddings, and special events that seek a combination of focus, celebration, and intimate connection.
Private Retreats: Earthdance is a beautiful and inspiring place to rest & retreat.
Mineral Collecting: Visit the old Betts Mine site to look for minerals.
Experiences
The Value of Earthdance
A relaxing and rigorous environment, that values the pace of the body and the richness of the soul.
Lila H.
What I Learned
Inspired by a community of teachers dedicated to seeking the moving and sublime truths of existence I learned to call on my name as Artist and Dancer.
Michelle L.
Why I Donate
Earthdance is a gem in the firmament! It holds space for deep exploration of one’s current investigation and supports our light spirit as well.
Ted J.
I Love
Part of my joy is just knowing that it’s here, even if I don’t use it as much as I would like. It’s like a local home of the larger dance community. A place to meet and re-meet friends. A place to get physical contact in times when that’s missing from my life – a connection. A place to express emotion. A place I’m proud to introduce people to as a physical center for my community of people. It allows people to have a place for the stream of community members that come and go through out lives. A place of nurturing – be it food, touch, talk, dance.
Anonymous.